1485 7 7
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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148598
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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148461
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HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…
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148432
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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148486
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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148400
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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148420
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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148465
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He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
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148400
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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148455
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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14841814
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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148443
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148423
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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148454
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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1483128
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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148332
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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148333
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148332
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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148331
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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148390
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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148387
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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148364
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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148340
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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148320
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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148375
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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148300
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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148345
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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148333
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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148398
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War Stories #1The Germans didn't like that theJews had such beautiful women.War Stories#2There must have been a war between the good witches and the bad witches. It's the only thing that would account for such troubling times.Woman With Yellow HatWhy did…
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1482119
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The summer I turned fourteen I had a job babysitting our neighbor, Pam's three year old daughter, Annie, three nights a week while Pam was going to Junior College, but it was hardly work because, after I tucked Annie in to sleep, I just watched TV, sitting in Pam's den…
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